This is a DEADLY, ADDICTIVE combination!  Let me explain:

Combining Sugar/Fat/Salt  purposely increases the hedonic value of food (gives immediate pleasure). The sweeter the food, the fattier the food, the more your neurons are stimulated. This prompts a strong emotional response.  Your body begins to desire reaching its "Bliss Point" and wants MORE, MORE, MORE.

 The fast food industry knows the addictive properties of sugar and incorporates it into their foods.   An example is a crispy food with a salty and sweet taste (chicken nuggets) or a fatty food with a sweet taste (milk shakes). Chicken nuggets are loaded with batter and fat.  The sugar is mixed into the fat. Also, did you know that even the hamburger buns have sugar in them?  Yes!  Also, beef patties can have sugar added as a flavor enhancer.

French fries:  just potatoes right?  No!  Fast food french fries are frequently dipped in a sugar solution before frying.  Also, the potato breaks down to sugar in your body.  When you add ketchup, you add even more sugar

The S-S-F combination increases dopamine in the brain, leaving you wanting more!

The S-S-F combination also breaks down in the mouth in a certain manner.  The small round mass of chewed food is called a bolus. The bolus of sugary foods feels slippery, soft, and juicy very fast. The body does not need to chew much  and thus does not begin to feel satiated. This means you have a feeling of wanting more!  This is done to us intentionally by the fast food industry. They are layering sugar onto fat onto salt and selling it to us.

Studies show that laboratory animals will gorge themselves on high fat, high sugar foods, even enduring heavy electrical shocks to get to the sugar.

The addiction can get to the point whereby you can drive past a specific location and begin salivating for a specific food that you remember eating.  Your body/brain begin incessantly nudging you to stop and GET THAT FOOD; that highly palatable food.  Even a billboard can stimulate some people into impulsive behavior….you become anxious, preoccupied and have to satisfy the urge.  Coffee shops have also gotten into the act.  Do you crave a regular cup of coffee?  Sometimes, but it is 90% of the time the Frappacino that you crave.  This is S-S-F loaded into Coffee!  Sugary flavors are manipulated to keep you wanting more and coming back.

We are making ourselves and our children sick!  Babies like a sweet taste.  Once they become addicted to the taste, they will go back for more and more.

Children are getting high blood pressure between the ages of 8-17

Cholesterol is high in 5^th graders now

Adolescents are developing stomach cancer.  Since the 1980's the chance of a young adult getting stomach cancer has increased by 70%

What about Weight?

In 1960 the average 40 year old woman weighed 142 pounds.

In 2000 she weighs 169 pounds.

This is frightening!  What has changed?  Think about it…Fast food became ubiquitous in America. 

With our STAY OFF SUGAR program, you can BREAK THE CYCLE.

I believe that knowledge is power.  Now that we know what is being done to us, Let's get Mad!

A single meal from a fast food restaurant can contain your entire calorie quota for one day…not to mention the hidden sugars!  DO NOT FALL INTO THE TRAP!

(Metabolic Syndrome OR Syndrome X)

What is insulin?

Insulin is a hormone that opens cell doors to enable sugar molecules (glucose) to enter the cell and do their work. Once inside the cells, the glucose is processed.  Some is used for immediate energy, some is stored as glycogen to be used later and the exess is stored as fat, either triglycerides or cholesterol.

 After many years of high sugar and carb consumption, the cells become so filled with sugar that they cannot admit any more sugar. The cells protect the body against more sugar overload by reducing the number of insulin receptors.  The receptors that do remain become more and more resistant to the action of insulin.  Thus, any extra sugar in the blood stream is diverted into fat storage. Once the fat cells are filled, the sugar has no place else to go and remains in the blood.

The body continues to pump out more and more insulin, but the cells are still resistant and the Syndrome develops.

IN A NUTSHELL:

INSULIN RESISTANCE:  Cells refuse to open their doors to the insulin.

Sugar builds up in blood instead of cells.  Cellsare  starved for sugar for energy.

The body will cry out for sugar.  You get cravings.

•     When you eat sugary things throughout the day, your system is continuously stimulated with no rest
•      Your liver pumps out more and more triglycerides flooding your body with fatty acids
•     Syndrome X is a silent disease with slow onset and eventually can become Type 2 diabetes which is now in epidemic proportions in the U.S. 
•     Syndrome X can lead to many problems in women including infertility, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS),  fibromyaligia, chronic fatigue, yeast infections and PMS as well as exacerbating menopausal symptoms.  

SYNOPSIS: When sugar and insulin are consistently elevated, you have to knock louder and louder on the doors of the cells to get them to open up and let the insulin in.  When the doors of the cells are reluctant to open, this is known as insulin resistance.

Sugar & Hormones

Sugar negatively affects the glands and the glands make our hormones. All hormones communicate with each other.

When a particular hormone system breaks down, it affects all the other processes in the entire physiological system because the systems of the body are interconnected. As your body loses cells and hormone levels decline, your body breaks down more than it builds up, and the end result is aging.

  Sugar increases insulin levels and increased insulin levels disrupt every other hormone system in the body. Sugar affects the hormone cascade in this order:  Insulin, Thyroid, Adrenals.  Over, time hormone imbalances always lead to symptoms and even disease, especially thyroid problems and adrenal exhaustion.